Compared to most other seafood, the flesh of tuna has relatively high levels of mercury. A Food and Drug Administration (FDA) estimate suggests that tuna contains between 0.126 and 0.689 parts per ...

Levels of mercury persist in tuna, decades after pollution controls were introduced to limit emissions, scientists say. The poisonous element is released by mining and burning coal and ends up in ...

CR tested canned tuna from BumbleBee, Chicken of the Sea, StarKist, and other popular brands. Here's our advice for pregnant people, and everyone else. By Lauren Kirchner Data visualizations by ...

It means that for 50 years a mercury threshold three times higher for tuna than for other fish species such as cod was set as “acceptable”, “without there being the slightest health ...

A nurseries director has said it was an "easy decision" to ban tinned tuna and replace it with pilchards and mackerel after ...

Mercury contamination in canned tuna sold across major European markets has reached worrying levels, with some samples containing four times the legal limit, French environmental groups said on ...

Activists are demanding an outright ban on serving tinned tuna in hospitals and schools after toxic levels of mercury were detected in the store-cupboard favourite. The environmental campaigners ...

Non-profits Foodwatch and Bloom Association have called on the European Commission to tighten rules on the sale and advertising of tuna products containing high levels of mercury. Both groups have ...